an eternal quest

As the greater part of the works of Herman Hesse, Siddhartha is an initiatory quest. The hero has a thirst for knowledge. But what is knowledge? What can bring the masters to existential questions of the disciples? Siddartha experiences all, the way of family and respect for tradition, the search for spirituality with samanas, these mystical wandering naked, capable of fasting and meditation; it also discovers the joys of love and material life, to immediately deviate. Is not his pride, the conceit, that sense of superiority to others that prevent it from perceiving the truth? At the water's edge, Siddartha include "everything".